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Colour, copies and confinement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper we construct a wide class of Gribov copies in Coulomb gauge SU(2) gauge theory. Infinitesimal copies are studied in some detail and their non-perturbative nature is made manifest. As an application it is shown that the copies prevent a non-perturbative definition of colour charge.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0701168,
  title  = {Colour, copies and confinement},
  author = {Anton Ilderton and Martin Lavelle and David McMullan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0701168},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

25 pages, 10 figures. Minor changes, two references added. Published version